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So, I live in this shitty apartment building where there's definitely not enough spots for everyone's cars (maybe JUST enough, but that's pushing it.) So there's 6 designated spots for each apartment, and two or three floaters (whoever parks there can park there) in the lot. My shitty drug dealing upstairs neighbors always have friends over who block me in the driveway, park in my spot, or hit my car on the way out (I actually think that one was my actual neighbor though)....

Anyways, earlier yesterday someone's parked in my apartment's designated spot. This happens all the time because there's two spots directly in front of the house, parallel and right on the road, it's hard to know that it's not just off-street parking. (There's a big sign but I give people the benefit of the doubt) I usually write a note saying that it's a reserved spot and they can't park there. I did that yesterday to someone who parked there. They left, and hours and hours go by and I go out to buy a new mattress. I come back, and that jerk is parked in my spot again! So, I pull up so close to the driver's side door that it's impossible to get in from that side. I get out of my car and start cutting the rope off my mattress, and the owner of the car comes down to leave, just standing there watching. I say, "oh, is this your car? I'll move mine in just a few minutes, I gotta move this mattress. Oh, by the way, you're definitely not allowed to park here. Its a reserved spot for my apartment." and his response was "I wasn't staying long". I told him that he seriously can't ever park there again and that again, I'd move my car in just a couple minutes. He realizes I am not moving for him and he finally gets in on the passenger's side and slowly drives away.

I am so sick of these assholes who continue to park in my spot. That felt good.

TL;DR: Made some dude who keeps parking in my designated spot climb through the passenger's side of his car to actually enter his car.

My spot was the second spot on the left side of the lot, next to the empty space. The end space was a co-worker (which plays into the story).

My spot even had a sign that said "Resident parking only. All others towed." Except the manager never towed any cars, even though I asked her multiple times. But she was nice to me, so that was good.

At the time, I drove a 1978 Chevy C30 pickup, which was a really big truck. There was no guest parking. And there was never enough space for me to park on the street. I'd have to park a mile away or start yelling for whoever it was to move their car.

So yeah, at least once a week you could find me standing out in the parking lot, yelling at the top of my lungs about some asshole and their car. And sometimes nobody would come out!

One day I got fed up, and simply parked my truck directly behind the asshole in my space (see yellow highlighted area) . My co-worker was also home, so the asshole could not get out. Going forward was a 15' drop, and while I dreamed about pushing cars off the edge I never did.

About an hour (yes, an HOUR!) later someone comes knocking on my door. I did not open and asked what they wanted. They said I was blocking them in. I was pissed that someone told them where I lived, and I told them they were in MY spot, and there was a sign, and they fucked up, and to go away. A few minutes later, they came back, and I was even more mad, and yelled at them and told them I would be gone tomorrow morning at 8am, and they could get their car then. And to go the fuck away.

My co-worker didn't mind, as I checked with them beforehand, and she just said she could just pull forward to get out of her space if she needed to. She said she decided to leave her car there, though, because it was awesome.

They left, defeated.

I was worried I'd get towed, but nothing happened.

This happened again a few times, with the exact same outcome. No one knocked on my door, though.

After about two weeks, all the other residents started doing the same thing. You'd hear people yelling "Don't park there, you'll get blocked in!" when their friends would come over.

Meh, most drug dealers are just full of hot air, depends on the neighborhood.

Generally you have to worry about their supplier, but he wouldn't get involved over you towing his buddy's car. In fact I'd doubt he'd get involved with anything to do with the dealer not drug related.

Many towing places will do it for free as then they can charge riotously huge towing fees and storage fees. Find the most distant place as well. I live in one of the biggest cities in the world (geographically not peoplewise) so in my building they have a deal with one that is an hour's drive away.

City parking enforcement probably does it for free. Or if you can prove you're the owner of the home/space then then towers would probably do it. If there's a city bylaw about private parking then the above will most likely work.

It always happens once with different people, different cars, al the time. That's why I leave the notes. It still sucks because new people park all the time. Except this dickdude had parked, I left the note, left, and came back and parked in the same spot. So I had no sympathy as to parking so close to him.

Don't think so. My neighborhood is all private but there's a sign at the front that says it's a tow away area. So if someone parks in front of my driveway I can have them towed and the cost is on the vehicle owner. Law may vary by state.

My brother had a reserved spot outside a dorm at college. Every move in day he would camp out in the front lawn with a cooler and wait for parents to park there. As soon as they did he would call up Leroy with the tow truck and laugh. People never read signs

I've dealt with this successfully before. Here's how: You know those annoying parking violation stickers that are almost impossible to remove? Buy a stack of 50. You can find them easily online. It'll cost much less than a tow truck. Stick it on their window for a first time offense. Sick it on their windshield for a second offense. Stick it everywhere else you'd like depending on the day you're having. Consider it a more effective, lingering, neon note. :-)

It escalates pretty quickly in here. For every "I tied their shoelaces together, now I feel better." there will be several people saying something like "I know a quick way to remove their feet FOREVER!" I think people forget what petty means sometimes.

During the 80's, I managed several different apartment complexes in different cities. When I found people parking in spots that were reserved, or weren't designated parking, I gave them a warning sticker. The sticker was bright orange and 12" x 12", with a super sticky back.

It said, "Parking here is a tow-able offence, vehicle will be towed if not removed, or if found in a non- designated spot again." I then gave them an hour, then towed them if the vehicle was still there. I always put the sticker in front of the drivers seat on the windshield. It needed a razor blade to remove.

I believed the signs for parking were enough warning, but the notice was required in Texas. I also kept track of the license number, so I could tow them for multiple offences. I never had to tow more than two before it didn't occur anymore while I was manager.

In Massachusetts we used to tow off our private lot immediately. We even got kickbacks from the towing company for every call. It was a weekly occurrence as we had a lot pretty central to a major university.

in the same building as this bar is an e-cig shop. and there are like 3 parking spots in front of the building and a ton in the back. The bar owns the back parking lot and has a sign saying private property, will tow. So when you walk into the e-cig shop, the first thing they say to you is, "did you park in the back? if so you need to go move it or it's about to be towed." What dicks the bar is. I'm pretty sure they are getting a kickback from the towing company.

We were poor college kids that got paid 300 dollars a per parking spot each semester. All the spots were sold. We had huge signs everywhere saying it was a private lot. I much rather tow some ass hats car then have someone not be able to park in their super expensive leased spot.

I just gave them that long. I can't remember if there was a time limit, but I don't think there was one. The sticker sure would piss them off though. They couldn't drive with it on, and it had to be scraped with a razor blade to remove it enough to drive.

That is why I was wondering about only giving them an hour, especially after putting a sticker that requires chemicals or a razor blade to remove, hell it might take them that long to get the shit to take the sticker off. So it's a little douche baggy.

I towed one guy that was parked on the lawn. I didn't give him any notice, and while the wrecker was hooking up, he came running out to try and stop it from being towed. The wrecker guy charged him $50. to unhook. He evidently thought that took care of things and left the car there and went back inside. I looked at the wrecker guy, and he just shook his head, then hooked back up and took the car. I thought maybe I would have a problem with it, but I'm a pretty big guy and that was the end of it, but he never parked on the lawn again.

This happens at my place all of the time, except that instead of parking in our spot (which still happens from time to time), there are a bunch of jerks who park in front of the vehicle gate that actually leads to the lot. This has the fun effect of reducing our two-lane exit path to a one lane gamble of doom.

Will some other jackass come whipping around the turn with their crappy souped-up heap and crash into me today? Or are there cars doing 60 in a 25 zone that will clip the front of my car as I inch out to see around all of the street parking? Nobody knows!

They always seem to get away with it, too. Our complex is run by a company that has a designated towing company on call, but they always seem to be away from the phones at night.

I put a junior mint in an asshole neighbors keyhole on his truck that he would constantly park me in with. This guy also had his own garage and an assigned spot but he liked the unassigned ones better. Often times I couldn't find anywhere to park because he wouldn't park in his own spot. I hate apartment living...

I used to have this issue at an apartment complex with paid reserved spots and I just had them towed every time. It never stopped because there was always someone who wanted to park there but the same cars never did it twice because waking up and not having your car is not fun.

Why don't you just rat out the drug dealer neighbor? I know snitches get stitches, but he/she is an idiot for not informing the customers to not block other peoples cars. Don't want the police to come knocking...

Anyone who calls the cops on someone instead of actually dealing with a problem is a spineless child. I probably should not have mentioned the drug dealing, it's not a problem, but the loud parties at most hours of the day is (simply because the walls are thin and they live above me). I've definitely thought about it, but I've moved on from running to mom/dad to tell on my siblings.

I don't know why you were downvoted for this. It cracks me up that people on reddit are so quick to say "CALL THE COPS!!" But they're also the first people to tell you the cops won't do shit and on top of that half of reddit smokes weed anyways and then they tell you to rat out the college kid upstairs sellin dime bags to his friends.

Sorry you have to deal with assholes parking in your spot, I hated that shit when I reserved parking in my neighborhood especially because the landscapers would come every Thursday and every fucking Thursday those fucks would cover my reserved spot with tree branches and grass clippings then pretend they didn't know English when I asked them to please move their mess out of my parking spot and to stop using it as a dump zone. I had to file a formal complaint with the HoA to get them to stop doing it.

I had shitty upstairs neighbors for a while who just wouldn't compromise with us about loud music. Approached them multiple times telling them that even though the building's rules say quiet hours are 8am-10pm we were totally cool with midnight during the week and bar time on weekends. Every time they said OK OK that's cool and then I'd get woken up by blasting music at 3am on a Wednesday. So I gave up and started calling the cops. It didn't really change much but what it gave me was a record of reported disturbances. Within a few months they were evicted. So I guess I played the long game, but I did try to work with them.

Sometimes people force your hand. That's what happened when I went to the HoA to complain about the landscapers. I tried to work with them and even told them my shift every Thursday is 2am-10am and that they could use my spot all they wanted as long as they had it cleaned up by 10 am. 4 consecutive weeks of them still piling shit in my spot was enough for me to go above their heads. The HoA had received numerous complaints that were similar to mine about the landscapers so they made the decision to fire that company and hire a different one. I felt bad for messing with their livelihoods but they left me with no other option. The new landscapers are not only better they're extremely polite and unlike the other guys they actually listen to you and don't pretend to only speak Spanish if you confront them about something.

People who hate cops are vocal, people who hate idiots are vocal. If there is an idiot the people who hate idiots say call the cops, if there is a cop the people who hate cops complain. That is what happens in a community with hundreds of millions of users

You don't need to call the cops on him. You simply take him aside (or for the cowardly, leave a note) and say something like this:

As your neighbor I've tried very hard to be neighborly. I don't make loud noises or block the stairwell with trash. I try not to stick my nose in other people's business. For example, I might have suspicions that my neighbor could be in possession of or be dealing illegal drugs. I keep those suspicions to myself. However recently your friends have been parking in my spaces. Letting your friends do this is not a neighborly thing to do, and it's testing my neighborly patience. I'd like nothing more than for us to continue our neighborly relationship, so, please, for the love of all that is holy, keep your friends out of my fucking parking spot.

Edit: I should also add, from friends' anecdotal experience, that this threat is much more valuable than actually calling the cops. If you call the cops and say that you kinda sorta think that your neighbor is a pot dealer in many areas they're not likely to do much about it anyway.

This! Totally this. This is what I mean by not getting the cops involved. Yeah, the cops don't solve problems, they can create more for everyone involved. Thank you /u/dweezil22 for backing me up a bit on this one.

However, I totally didn't back my case up well so I understand why people are making a stink.

So your solution is to be the one that they should blame, rather than run the risk of being the one that they might blame?

Also, why would they automatically think that someone who was mature enough to come over and talk to them about their issues, instead of calling the police, would be the one to call the police?
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Picture yourself as the drug dealer. Imagine the two ways this can play out.

Joe has complained and politely suggested that he's aware of your illegal activities. The police show up and bust you. You remember that Joe mentioned you "dealing illegal drugs". Maybe Joe is a rat? Maybe Joe's car catches fire?

Joe is just some guy that lives in the complex and has never said a word. The police show up and bust you. Joe never even comes to mind. You probably blame your stupid ex-girlfriend who is pissed because you cut off her supply. That bitch gets stabbed when she shows up for child support.

It's not a question of who they should blame. It's a question of who they will blame.

I don't see this. If Joe shows up and talks to you like you're a human instead of pond scum, you'd work with him to keep things down. If you eventually got busted, you wouldn't think of Joe because he's been straight up with you in the past.

Ok, I pictured it. The way I picture it is that I am a peaceful drug dealer, who will only blame myself when the police are called, because I have willfully broken the law of the land, in order to make money. I understood the risks of the trade when I entered, and therefore know I have no one to blame but myself.

This scenario has about as much substance as yours, even though you're certain that yours reflects reality, and mine doesn't, for some reason. The truth is, you don't know, and pretending like your innate biases reflect reality, doesn't mean that they actually do. There are so many more ways that this can play out than the two you described; it's a false dichotomy.

I've lived with all drug dealers, every one who has ever existed, at one time, and dealt with all of them enough to know how they relate to themselves, as individuals. I can therefore say with complete certainty, knowing that all drug dealers the same: They blame themselves for NOTHING.

Whats spineless about calling cops? People like me have kids i don't need that crap around. Also wow big whoop you made the guy use the passenger side door to get in his car. Wow good burn. I mean you must of cost the guy several minutes.

You're probably being downvoted for the way you said it. If you said "I'd rather just talk to them to sort it out, I find it to be a better way to deal with problems." then you'd have no downvotes. Instead you insulted people for no reason.

I guess you've never had to deal with asshole neighbors that sold drugs and fought all the time. Unreasonable people that won't listen to your concerns about keeping someone up all night because he was hitting his girlfriend. That's where the cops come in.

Thankfully he went to jail, and the girlfriend couldn't afford to pay the mortgage, so the house was foreclosed on.

Meh, I don't mind. People have their opinions. I definitely think the police should be involved if it gets to that level, but it hasn't. We're all around the same age and have similar friends of friends. Kind of distant but there's still some sort of community here. I don't think police involvement is helpful to establish any sense of community, even if I don't agree with what they do. I only know about the drugs from a friend of a friend and I wouldn't have even known otherwise. They are just loud as fuck at all hours of the day.

When people say things like /u/WyoVolunteer did, it fosters an environment of thinking that you have no alternative other than to fend for yourself in any instance. That the police will just screw up again and again and try to kill you and your family.

It just isn't the case. Maybe in a small town with a corrupt sheriff (and that's even relegated to movies sometimes - a lot of the things, like Steubensville for instance, are a result of the whole town's mindset), or maybe in a big city there's a few bad ones, but most of my interactions with police were neutral or good. I can only think of two times where I was harassed and looking at potentially going to jail over some made up bullcrap.

The truth is that most cops are willing to help you out and can be quite nice about it at the same time. If there were so many "Bad Cop No Donut" cops around, there would be a lot more noise about it.

As far as drug raids, I was not commenting on the "War on Drugs" but merely trying to give a simple analogy that is similar to how people treat product reviews and so on.

You're a lot more likely to hear the very vocal minority that has a bad experience, than to hear the rest of us with no comment because we had good interactions. Actually, that is one of the reasons I often go out of my way to make sure I let superiors know when someone is doing a great job. Whether it's a waiter, a sales associate that sold me a TV, or a cop that helped me get my car started back up, I try to let the higher-ups know that this person is doing a good job.

What were you cutting the mattress rope with? You might have just scared him off because he was probably high, you were wielding a sharp object and conceivably blocking his escape route. You may have become the knife wielding maniac neighbor of the drug dealer. Awesome!

As a btw, if you can get into the car, most cars have a shift lock release that allows you to shift the transmission to neutral without needing the car to be on. Pop it into neutral and roll it into the road. Insta-tow and probably a fine too!

I used to live above retail space, down the street from a live theater. People parked in my spot all the time, despite signs. I tired of walking to the offending businesses to ask these people to move, so I began simply charging them for renting my spot by taking their wiper blades. Just taking them off and bringing them inside. Nobody stopped, but at least I felt like they were being as inconvenienced as I was.

I think I'd start carrying small syringes of brake fluid with me... that stuff will eat paint. Or ya know.. call the police on the questionable things going on at your neighbors. Maybe have a drug sniffer come to your apartment, tell them you had a roommate you've since kicked out who you found drugs on and you want to make sure there aren't any in your apartment? Maybe the drug dog will pick up on the neighbors?